This is the true story of the Sager children. If you want all of the details, you should look it up on Wikipedia, and other places on the computer.This is a good movie, but it leaves out a lot of details, especially about what happened to the children when the movie ended.John Sager was the oldest child, and he was only 13 - - but, in those days, you could be thought of as a man at that age - - when both of their parents died, he took on the responsibility of raising his 6 siblings. The youngest was only 3 months old.The movie implied a happy ending - - that the children ended up living on land that Kit Carson held for them by the government and that they built a house there - - that was their dream, but that is not what happened.What really happened was that the children stayed with the Whitmans for about two years - - and then the Whitmans and John and Francis and Luisa were killed by Indians.The remaining girls - - Catherine, Elizabeth, Matilda, and Henrietta - - lived into old age.